bootblack
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
bootblack (plural bootblacks)
- (dated) A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 24, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
- The young negro bootblack hummed "The Camp Meeting Blues" and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so taut at each stroke that it snapped like a banjo string.
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Translations[edit]
shoeshiner — see shoeshiner
Verb[edit]
bootblack (third-person singular simple present bootblacks, present participle bootblacking, simple past and past participle bootblacked)
- (transitive) To shine shoes.